Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. A Net Applications survey put Firefox at 25% of the recorded usage share of web browsers , making it the second most popular browser in terms of current use worldwide after Microsoft's Internet Explorer, and the most used browser independent of any one operating system. Other sources put Firefox's usage share at between 21% and 32% and generally trending upward. As of December 2009, Firefox 3.5 was the most used browser in the world (including browser versions), according to StatCounter . Due to the January 2010, well-publicized vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, the German and French, and Australian governments have publicly issued warnings to Internet Explorer users to use alternative browsers at least until a fix for the security hole is made. The first browser they recommended was Mozilla Firefox, followed by Google Chrome.
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